The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-06
But Widely Different in Temperament and
Mental Peculiarities- Contrast Be-
tween Senator's Sherman and Ingalls,.
Small Caliber Lawyers Who Question
Decisions Of the Supreme Court.
Congressman Hammond's Queer Dream About
the Election of q Speaker-IIow Mr. Van
Eaton Conducted a Mock Session.
SHERMAN AND INGALLS,.

They Are Much Alike Physically, but Differ
Widely In Mental Qualities.
Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March "a day or two after
Mr. sInga1ls, of Kansas, succeeded Mr.. Sherman,
of Ohio. as President pro tempore of the Senate,
the two men met in front Of the presiding
officers chair and walked down the center aisle
to the south door together and out into the cor
ridor. Those who saw the two distinguished
statesmen side by side remarked the very great
similarity of their physical makeup. Both are
above six-feettwo IN height, and neither will tip
the beam at $50. They are slender as rails and
but for slight stoop in Mr.. Shermans back,
obtained by looking downward in meditation as
he walks, each would be straight as an arrow.
Indeed, the gentleman from Kansas leans a little
backward he is SO straight.
Often has it been remarked by the habitues OF
the galleries OF the Senate that it is remarkable
that two meh could associate SO long together,
each fighting for the same issues and working to
the same ends, and look so much alike in gen.
eral physical composition, and be distin-
guished, and yet have little similarity in gen.
eral ability. Neither is the temperament of
each of these great statesmen alike in any degree,
positions so far as social qualities are concerned.
One would never suspect that Senator Sherman
cared anything for that which was going on
around him constantly, excepting that which
affected legislation finance, while Senator
ingalls, sees and hears everything, and is one of
the most inquisitive men one ever saw Senator
Sherman investigates nothing he sees outside of
the Capitol. one would think from general ap-
pearances, while Senator ingalls, could not see
crying child pass him without stopping it and
asking what the trouble. Senator Ingalls,
invariably attends the circus. and asks all about
the funny men, and the trick animals and the
queer people and things in the museum. Sena-
tor Sherman does not attend such places, and if
he did he would look and listen and ask no ques-
tons. One has great curiosity, and seeks to
crafty it. while the other has 20 curiosity or is
indifferent about it.
Both these men are exceedingly companions
BILE in travelling. l have been on the road with
| each. Ingalls, sits quietly in ths car and tells
stories and smokes, occasionally going about
| among the passengers and perpetrating pranks
| upon strangers. while Sherman gets in one po-
sition and remains as steady AS possib e till he
| reaches station, when he runs out and shakes
hands with those he knows. l once attended a
| congressional inspection of the Carlisle Indian
| school, and one of the committee was Mr.. H.
| gals. Gairg about the grounds of the place, an
! experienced newspaper reporter could not have
| cleaned much information by interviews as
| he did. He combines all the inquisitiveness of
both a reporter and a lawyer, and hesitates to
| ask nothing. He even made inquiries of the In
| dian girls about housekeeping and their ideas of
married life, which were amusing. but conducive
to great information as to the real qualities of
| their instruction. 1t is said that Ingalls, as a
| lawyer. at his home in Kansas, feared by all
| of his colleagues because he invariably sprang
some trick in plea or testimony, and had so
much genius that there was way of anticpat-
| ing him. Sherman would stick to the books, as
a lawyer, and essay to win on superior legal
| points.
There are almost ten years difference in the
| ages of these men, Sherman was born in
| Lancaster O., and will be sixty-fve years old
next May while Ingalls, first saw the light of
| day in Massachusetts, and will be fifty five in
| December ingalls, has all the cunning and
genius of the original Yankee, while Sherman
possesses the sterling qualities of the pioneers
| of the West. In debate the first is the most
caustic and eloquent in Congress, while the lat
| ter is considered the most convincing and ac-
curate Their dispositions are as different as
| day is from night, and yet they are the most
conspicuous figures at the Capitol at this mo-
ment Were they ever to lock horns in bitter
contest on the floor of the Senate chamber it
would be a mental contest like the physical
| struggle of the lion and the rhinoceros, or the
| buzz saw and the cleayer.